Well this week was SOOOO mega hot!!!!!!!! It was 114 degrees one day and they say that we are about to break the record of 42 consecutive days of the temperature being over 100!!!!!!! i love tracting at night because its a lot cooler outside and everyone is at home so it makes it a lot better and a lot less sweaty. I probably drink about 20 water bottles a day!!!!!!!! they want us drinking at least a cup of water every hour!!!!!!! This week was definitely a change cause i went on two exchanges this week (exchange means i trade companions with a missionary in my district for the day) on wednesday i went over to elder francoms and elder treasures area for the day and elder treasure was my companion!!!! the big change is that their area is a bike area which means i had to be on a bike for the WHOLE day!!!!!!! it made me appreciate even more that i get to be in a car!!!!!! it was a lot of fun being with elder treausre and we definitely had a lot of funny experiences with me being on a bike for the first time on my mission!!!!! im not used to riding a bike with a backpack on so i kept falling over for like the first hour!!!!! It was really cool cause while we were tracting we ran into an RLDS family and I dont really know that much about their religion. they invited us inside and they showed us their Book of Mormon and it basically is the same as ours except their chapters are set up a little differently. Their church organization is really different from ours because they dont have a prophet because they believe prophets come through bloodline and they believe that women can recieve the priesthood!!!! We couldnt really teach them and give them our message because they believe the same exact thing, they are just members of the wrong LDS church!!!!!!! Then the next day i was back in my area and it was nice to be back and this is when my spiritual highlight of the week happened!!!!! We went to go contact this referral we recieved from the spanish speaking missionaries and we went inside her house and we taught this lady about the restoration!!!! We had a member with us which made the lesson even better!!!!!!!! We taught her the restoration and she listened and she had really good questions and we could tell that she is so interested in the church!!!!! We said the closing prayer and we were about to go but then on her wall i saw a plaque that said "the Lord is my rock and salvation" and as soon as i read that, Helaman 5:12 popped into my head. And i felt so strongly that i needed to have her read that verse. So right before we stepped out the door i grabbed the book of mormon we gave her and turned to Helaman chapter 5 and had her read verse 12. as soon as she got halfway through the verse she started crying!!!!!! it wasnt as awkward this time as it was last week because now im starting to get used to investigators crying!!!!! as she finished the verse she said thank you and she said she is so excited to read the chapter we told her to leave!!!! I know that the spirit was prompting me to tell her to read that because that is exactly what she needed in her life at that moment in time and the spirit helped me with it!!!!!!!!! i love teaching with the spirit, it is so great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then the next day i went on another exchange with the zone leaders!!!! so i was with elder seager for the day!!!! elder seager is so great and i have learned so much from him. he graduated high school in 2010 but he left on his mission after high school inseatd of doing a year of college, so he has been out for ten months. his first name is cody also which we thought was cool!!!!!!!!! and he stays at the montage in laguna every summer and he loves newport!!! the zone leaders are over in allen so i got to spend the day in allen!!!!! we found a bunch of new investigators and we met a bunch of weird people, i meet weird people everyday but its hilarious!!!!!!! we met two deaf people and i got to use my sign language!!!!!!!!!!! miss smith would have been proud!!!!!! we had a meeting with the stake president and the bishops on saturday with our district which was so great. our zone is the allen stake and we have 10 missionaries in our zone!!! there is a missionary in my district named elder mchardy and he is such a funny kid, he is kinda like me but im more hyper!!!! he calls us every morning at 6:30 and yells good morning into the phone and then hangs up!!! this week has been great and we have a baptism on saturday and we got a bunch of new investigators!!!!!! i dont even really miss music that much because church music is so much better and i love it!!!!!!!!!!
"When the spirit touches your soul, it leaves a mark"
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